In the article, there were some interesting details about Chan's
childhood and the influence she had on her husband in terms of
where and how they would give back. In 2013, Forbes
named them the year's most generous young couple after
donating $1 billion.

Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, whom he met at
Harvard, embarked on education philanthropy as a couple, but they
brought different perspectives. Chan grew up in what she has
described as a disadvantaged family in Quincy,
Massachusetts. Her
Chinese-Vietnamese immigrant parents worked eighteen hours a day,
and her grandparents took care of her. Chan was the first in her
immediate family to go to college, and credited public-school
teachers with encouraging her to reach for Harvard. While there,
she volunteered five days a week at two housing projects in
Dorchester, helping children with academic and social challenges.
She had since become a pediatrician, caring for underserved
children. She came to see their challenges at school as
inseparable from their experience with poverty, difficulties at
home, and related health issues, both physical and
emotional.